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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
FARM NOTES.

small night lamp placed under the
drinking fountain will prevent the water
from freezing in the poultry house.
Cows that have no bedding are often
injured in the knees by getting up or
down, especially if the floors be wet and
slippery.
A man who takes to farming because
he has failed at everything else should
not expect any better success than in
other operations. 49,
This is an excellent season for repair
ing the fences. If deferred, the spring
with its hurry will allow no time for such
work.
Beets and parsnips may be kept fresh
through the winter by packing in sand.
them from drying up.
Kerosene will cure the scaly legs on
fowls. Anoint the legs once week with
kerosene for three or four weeks aud the
legs will become clean.
Cut out the lower limbs from the ever
green trees. Trim the hedges and get
them in shape. This is the season for
doing such wotk.
To produce the best results in amaryl-
lis culture, tho bulbs should be grown in
rich, fbrous loan, with one-fourth leaf
mold and plenty of we'll decomposed COW
manure.
The practice of washing sheep is to be-
discarded. Nothing is gained by it, while
it is injurious to the animals as well as
to those who have the disagreeable work
to perform.
Young chicks Matched now will reach
the market in March, at which time the
prices are high; but ducks should not be
Matched until later, so as to reach the
market about May.
IF your rye seed did not get in soon
enough to come up do not disturb 1T. The
chances are that it will show up well in
the spring. Seed often remains in the
ground all winter without injury.
The English sparrow has become such
a nuisance in South Australasia that thief
mers are petitiening the Commissioners
of public works for government leglsla-
ton to rid the country of them.
An orchard of Italian chestnuts, near
Los Gatos, is now coming into bearing,
$500 is said to have been realized this
year per acre. The chestnut is said to do
we'll generally in the foot hills of Califor-
MIA.
Do not forget to insure your buildings.
There is no knowing when accidents may
happen. Many prosperous farmers have
been ruined by neglecting to have their
buildings and implements secured against
loss.
Too much Germ to the females causes
weak offspring and milk fever especially
is this the case with COWS and ewes. Food
that is rich in oil is never suitable foI
the breeding stock. The best grain is
oats, either whole or If the ground condi-
ton.
The hogs should have undisputed sway
in the orchard during the fruit season,
ana they will eat up all the fallen and
wormy apples, and hunt out many or the
gruks, etc., which are injurious to the
trees. In this way they destroy many of
the enemies of the sound fruit and sound
tress, and in other ways greatly benefited
the orchard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
NEWSPAHEB ODDITIES.
Some of the Queer Things Found Among the
Journals of the Country

Some of the Queer Things Found Among the
Journals ofthe Country.
There are now published in the United
States IA, $50 news papers and periodicals
of all classes. The net ain of the year
has been 666, says the Printing Press
The daily newspapers number 1915 a
gain of thlrty-three. Canada has 679
periodicals. There are about twelve
hundred periodicals of all sorts, which,
according to estimates of the editor of
the Directory, enjoy circulation of more
than five thousand copies each. The in
crease In the weekly rural press, which
comprises about two-thirds of the whole
list, has been most marked in states like
Kansas and Nebraska, where the gain has
been respectively "a and Is per cent.
Kansas also shows the greatest gain in
daily newspapers. The weekly press is
gaining in massachusetts, while the ma
gaines and other monthly publications
are losing ground there. The tendency
of such publications toward New York
city, as the literary center of the country
is shown by the establishment here of
not less than twenty-three monthly per-
iodicals during the year.
Some of the curiosities of newspaper
statistics are worth paragraph There
are 700 religious and UNCONVENTIONAL
newspapers published in the United
States, and nearly ene-third of them are
printed in New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, and Chicago. New York is far ahead
IN this respect, but Chicago leads Boston.
Three newspaper are devoted to the silk
worm, six to the honey-bee, and not less
than thirty-two to poultry. The dentists
have eighteen journals, the phonog ra ph-
ers nine, and the deaf and dumb and
blind nineteen. There are three publ
cations exclusively devoted to philately
and one to the terpsichorean art. The
prohibitionists have 129 organs to the
liquor dealers eight. The woman-suf-
fragssts have seven, the candy-makers
three. Gastronomy is represented by
three newspapers, gass by two. There
are about six hundred newspapers print
ed In German and forty-two in French.
The towns which have most French per
iodicals are New York, New Orleans, and
dorchester, Mass.-four apiece. There
are more Swedish prints than French.
Two daily news papers are printed in the
Bohemian tongue. Toughest names are
found amoung the Polish, Finish, and
Welsh press; for instance the Dzienswiety
and the Prziaciel Ludi of Chicago, the
Yyhdyswalta in Sanomat of Ohio, and
the Wawr of Utica, n. Y. There is one
Goelic publication, one Hebrew. one
Chinese, and one in the Cherokee lang
uage.
All of these facts have a direct interest
to philosophers and students of socio-
logy. There is no better gouge and re-
gister of American civilization than the
newspaper directory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
Wanted them at the Old Prices.

very aged man from tho southern
portion of the county stepped into the
county clerks Office on Saturday for the
purpose of getting license to marry for
the sixth time in his checkered career.
"What's marriage license worth,
Billy?" he asked of Clerk Hill.
GA dollar and half" replied Mr.. Hill
''That's mighty steep. This is the
sixth time I have had occasion to ask
this question here, and ! have always
heretofore got license for 81, and I don't
think you ought to raise the price on me
IN my old age"
eff man would take six marriage Ii
censes at one time he could get them at
reduced rates, but when he takes them at
long intervals, like you do, it only
amounts to a retail business, and have
TO charge retail rates.
Without saying more the old gentle
man produced his $1.5O, and was served
with a license with a red seal and blue
ribbon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
POtatOfROt.
Rural New Yorker.

A correspondent writes: Thinking that
perhaps the scab in potatoes might be
produced from some germ adherent to
the seed, /, last May, put the sets for four
rows into very dIlate solution of car
bolic acid In water, and let them remain
in it about an hour. When [ dug these
rows, and those adjoining, all of a good
productive white sort, there was not much
difference as to scab, all having some of
1T; but the rows from dipped sets were
injured rather the least. There is, how
ever, decided difference in regard to
rot-only two tubers were affected yisi-
bly, in those four rows, while in others
many were damaged. But as lone swal-
low does not makes a summer" so one
trial does not test process, and the car
bOnlzing must be tried again. Expert
ence here seems to show that the scab is
caused by Larvae whose therm of life ex-
pires early in August. They come with
come sorts of animal manures, if not al
ready in the soil. Where soil from the
grading of houseyard was hauled to a
potato patch and spread over part of it,
the scab was general as far as that went.
In the earliest dug potatoes small, &C
tlce, manylegged and two-horned al
most transparent caterpillar-l grub
was found, by the aid of magnifier, in
some of the deeper scab cavities. Excre-
ment remained in abundant droppings.
The tuber is entirely good excepting the
portions eaten out, and the film of scab
Is easily scraped away. Some rows of
the same ground had about quart of
coal ashes put into the forrow at each
hill, and the sets were buried in it. AS
far as that reached, the tubers were fair
and clean, with very little exception,
and there were but very few cases of
rot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
His Enjoyment Brief.
Arkansaw Travele.


Man Ito friend)-Come, let us walk
down this way again.
Friend-why?
Don't you see that fellow over y,n-
der?''
Eyes, what of it 2"
ssWell, [ want to meet him as often as
possible?"
Il don't understand you"
''I'll explain. You know that I am the
worst man in the country for owing
people?"
eyes"
'And that when I owe man I dodge
him."
II believe that have noticed that"
''Well, now, I've got revenge"
s'How so?"
''Why, you see, tina fellow over there
owes me. When I see him dodge me it
tickles me nearly to death. / have been
SO hampered by men whom I owe that I
now enjoy being owed See how be gets
around the corner? Let's go over that
way. Say, hold on-let's go back"
whats the matter?"
'See that fellow"
eyes, what of it?"
Nothing, only / owe him. Confound
it, man never begins to enjoy himself
but that some unfortunate thing arises"
A citizen of Skowhegan, Me-, has in
vented an electric light which does away
with the disagreeable kissing and flicker
ing, and gives a steady and perhaps
brighter light than any other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
CELEBRATED DIAMONDS.
Some Beautiful Gems Worth Thousands of
Dollars
Cincinnati Enquirer.


Cincinnati Enquirer.
The largest diamond known is that of
the "Rajah of MattaR' in Borneo. 1t was
found on the island about twenty years
ago, and weighs $40 carats it is pearl
shaped stone, with small hole or crevice
at its short end.
Great Mogul."-The diamond known
under this name has received an amount
of attention beyond any other. Under
the name of the "Kohinoorm (mountain
OF hght) 1t played an important part in
the exhibition of 1851. The history of
this stone dates back to Sc B. c.: but
there is nothing known with certainty
about it until the beginning of the
fourteenth century. After the annexation
of the Puniab by the English govern
ment it came into possession of the
queen of England on June 3, 1850. Its
weight then was 1S6 LII carats, of an ir-
regular egg-like shape, and valued at
100000. 1t was then reduced tc Jog 1-16
carats, and made into a regular cut bril-
liant.
The "Orloff," or Amsterdam diamond
weighs 1944 carats, and is set in the top
OF the Russian imperial scepter. Tt is of
pure water, but not cut to advantage. 1t
was bought by Catherine IT, in the year
1875 of Shaffras, in Amsterdam, for $780,
600, giving him at the same time title
and a pension of $4,000 for life.
The diamond well known under the
name of the SHAH was given to the en-
peror of Russia by Prince Cosroes,
younger brother of the Able Mirza when
he was IN St Petersburg. 1t weighs only
20 carats, but 1t is perfectly pure, without
a flaw or cloud, and it is interesting mas
much as 1t Is only partly cut, many of its
natural surfaces being preserved. The
cut facets contain Persian inscriptions,
and there is a little groove around the
tod of 1T to which cord was fastened, in
order that 1t might be worn about the
neck.
One of the most celebrated brilliants is
the celebrated Pitt, or Regent, which If
among the Freuch crown Jewels. 1t
weighs 1864 carats. It once ornament
ed the sword of Napoleon l. Before it
was cut it weighed 40 carrats.
The Florentine diamond, among the
crown jewels of the emperor of Austria,
weighs 1898 carats. 1t is of pure water Of
fine color, and, notwithstanding its color
is somewhat of citron tint, it is valued
at $525,OOO.
The Sancy diamond weighs 5315 carats,
and came from India about the fifteenth
century. 1t was sold by Napoleon to the
emperor of Russia for S275,00O.
The Star of the South is the largest
diamond found in Brazil, and weighs 254
carats. 1t is brilliant of the purest
water.
The Pasha of Egypt is cut on eight
sides, and weighs 40 carats and cost $780,
600.
The Pigott diamond, brought from In
dia by Lord Pigott, weighs 821 earats.
and IN 1901 it was sold in lottery for
$150,OOO
The Nassac, formerly in the possession
of the East Indies company, weighed 894
carats; but since Lord Westminster had it
cut anew it weighs only 1873 carats. It's
value is about $15OOOO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06

ing one hundred or some other definite
number of seeds, and counting the plants
which appear, pretty accurate opinion
of the proportion which will grow in a
field can be formed. The test should be
very carefully made. Otherwise really
good seeds may be condemned as worth
less.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
Storing Cabbage for Winter


An experience market gardner con-
tributes the following to the American
Cultivator as the best plan he has tried
for successfully keeping cabbages:
Cabbages for storing should not be
pulled to early, Nov. to 10 being the
proper time in thes latitudes leaving hem
frozen in the ground.
Pull them on a dry afternoon, and
leave their heads down, throwing four
rows together so that a cart can go be-
tween the windows and pick them up.
Do not handle them when the leaves are
frozen. To store them they are simply
packed in the furrow of a small pillow,
pulling off some of the coarse leaves,
placing them as closely as they will stand
together, stumps down. Then turn an
other furrow against the roots, and
pack another row until they are all
packed. asserting the hard heads by
themselves to be used first, and the softer
ones to be kept longer. When kept till
May they will head up good deal in the
bed After they all are packed in, run
the pillow twice around the bed, so as to
throw up a ridge against them, and leave
a furrow to drain off surface water.
If the weather is cold they may be at
s
dow hay or other litter, using but little
covering at first for fear of heating, If
the weather is warm. But when hard
frost comes on they should have Just
enough covering to keep them from
freezing through. A little frost on the
outer leaves will do no harm, but keep
them far better than too much litter.
If the weather gets warm for two days
N succession in Winter, it will be we'll to
stripsoff the covering entirely,so as to pre-
vent leaking, which sometimes will de-
stroy a bed in long thaw, replacing the
covering of course, on the approach of
frosty weather. Cabbages may be re-
moved at any time in winter when not
covered . too deeply with snow and ice.
A heavy fall of snowwill sometimes start
them to heating, and they will need to
be watched little to keep them well. If it
is desired to keep them till May the COW
ering should be removed about the mid
die OF April, when severe frost is over.
Savoy cabbages keep better than other
varieties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
School Room Echoes.

Teacher Of chemistry to class-Can you
give me an example of the gases in a
solid form?
Glass, with vociferous unanimity-
ess.
Teacher-To what class of leather does
calf-skin belong?
Pupil (son of shoemaker)- ito the up
per class, sir.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
SWEET APPLE PICK LES.

Take four pounds of firm sweet apples.
Make a syrup of four pounds Of sugar
and one quart of vinegar, flavor with
lemon. Boil the apples in the syrup I'M
til tender.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
THE HOUSEHOLD.
TO FRY HOG BRAINS,

Wash them in cold water, roll them in
-four and fry them in hot lard until we'll
Drowned. While frying sprinkle with
pepper and salt and then serve them
hot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
DAISIES ON THE FARM
TEXAS SETTINGS.

She painted them on the canvas
With rapt artistic air.
She wore them in her bodice
And in her raven hair
She thought farm life jdyllic,
And said its greatest charm
Was lent it by the daisies,
The daisies on the farm.
do you not love the daisies?''
To the farmers son she saith,
But all the praise he uttered
Was underneath his breath.
Ii sounded energetic,
But she felt vain alarm,
That rs did not love the daise2,
The daisies on the farm
She read to HIM poem,
A pastoral complete;
He seemed unsympathetic,
Though her voice WAS very sweet.
With some repres6ed emotion,
His face grew dark and warm;
For its burden was the daisies,
The daisies on the farm
Soon the charming summer bcarder
To her city hsme returned,
For a soul OF higher longing
Her Hthetic nature yearned.
And The farmers son, undaunted,
With his scythe upon his arm,
Went to battle with the daisies,
The daisies on the farm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
CHOICE FIG CAKE.

A large cup Of butter, and two and q
half of sugar, one of sweet milk, three
pints -four, with three teaspoons baking
powder, whites of sixteen eggs, pound
and quarter of figs well-foured and cut
in strips liks citron; no fayoring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
CRANBERRIES.

Wash one quart OF cranherries and put
thea into a covered saucepan with one
pint of water. Let them simmer until
each cranberry bursts open; remove the
cover and add one pound Of sugar, and
let them all boil twenty minutes without
the cover. The cranberries must never
be stirred from the time they are placed
on the fse. Follow this recipe exactly,
and you will have a most delicious prepar-
alton o: cranbeIries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
BREAKFAST DROP CAKE.

A cup and half Of buttermilk, half
cup of sour cream, an even teaspoon of
salaratus, one teaspoon of salt and four
cups of flour; mix well, drop in small
tablespoonful an inch apart in we'll
creased dripping pan and then bake
quickly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
POTATO CROQUET1Rs,

POTATO CROQUET1RS,
Two cups of smoothly mashed potatoes
one egg beaten light, half cup of milk,
one teaspoonfuI of butter, pepper and
salt; beat all together until light, stir in
a saucepan until hot and stifened. Turn
out upon fat dish to get cold. Form
into croquettes, roll in beaten egg, then
in fine crumbs and fry in hot dripping.
Drain from the fat in split spoon and
arrange on a platter.
STEWED CELERY,
Scrape the stalks of bunch of celery
cut into inch lengths and cook tender in
cup of soupstock or gravy, dilute and
strained; heat a tablespoonful of butter
in frying pan and stir into it a table
spoonful or so of Drowned -four until yoH
have a smooth roux. Drain the celery,
add the liquor strained to that III the
fryingpan, season with pepper aud salt,
boil up and pour over the celery in a
deep ish.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-08-10

Unless the unforeseen and unexpect-
ed happens in the next few weeks the
South will have a larger cotton crop
this year than it has ever harvested
thus far. There is q promise, indeed,
that Z, BOO, 600 bales wsll be gathered,
which is nearly twice .as large as the
heaviest yield in any year in the old
slave labor period. The largest crop
ever yet harvested was in 1865
#882,334 bales. Last year the pro-
duction was $500, 600 bases. The
value OF the crop this year will prob
able reach $500, OOo, 900. TfRs is a
large Gum Of money, but it is about
SIS, 100000 less than the value OF
the average hay crop Of the eea n
try in the past four year. about $780,
.OOO, 900 less than the average OF re-.
cent wheat crops, and fully $40, Ooo q
600 less chan the average corn crop
of the sane period.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-08-10
A Costume too Fearfully Invisible

Boston Special: On Tuesday afternoon
Che Goth inst, the parents OF a well known
South Boston girl discovered that she had
her portrait taken in a stume SO fear
fully invisible that the most powerful mi
croscope failed to find it. When expos
tulated with she said she did not care
what they thought about it. because
"other girls did it." After exacting a
promise from her that she would never
visit the gallery again or any other gallery
for such q purpose, the subject dropped.
An intimate friend of the family discoy-
cred accidentally that this picture was on
exhibition in private room and that
dozens of them were being turned out and
sold to the Broadway bloods at very high
prices. He Immediately swore out a war
rant for the arrest OF the photographer for
selling obscene and indecent pictures. The
gallery.was visited by the police and the
proprietor taken into custody. It is said
that fifteen different pictures OF various
pretty. young ladies well known in South
Boston were brought to light, and that on
the roof,in various stages OF development
ten negatives were also discovered OF South
Boston beauties in undress uniform.
The proprietor was held in two bonds OF
$500 each for trial. The first count
charges him with selling obscene photo.
graphs and the second with publishing and
circulating indecent literature.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-08-10

8 s )
dividual reports, a large share of which are
from farmers north of the iorty-sixth par
allel, place the crop at 100. The lesson
taught by the result OF this years opera
lions will in the future lead farmers to still
further diversity their crops; the greatest
possible good will have been accomplished
Tor the agricultural interests OF the terri
tory. The statistics show that in June
there were new filings at the ten United
States land Offices in Dakota on 99S, $50
acres OF land; acquired by final proof and
by entry 755, 645 acres. The total num-
Der OF presumption filings is 2,64s home
stead; 2, 292 timber culture; /, 500 pre-
emption proofs; committed homesteads,
S54; final homestead proofs, 2,l13; timber
culture proofs, 1ss; purchased by land
scrip, $40 acres. On the basis OF the cal
culation adopted by this Office there was
q gain during June of 1909 souls, OF at
the rate OF 81, 600 for the year.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-08-10
according to Prof. Conrad of Halle

.sAccording to Prof: Conrad of Halle,
the number OF university students in
Germany has increased from l3,4OO
in 1867 to $4,000 at the present time.
In the last five years hegincrease has
been 26 per cent, while. the populac
tion has increased only five per cent.
AL the professions which require spec
! al training are greatly, overcrowded
and an increasingly large number OF
Learned men are quite as poo- as the
!body of the unlearned who earn q liv-
ing by manual labor.